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Tuesday, November 12, 2013

Mantena's Special - Tomato Nuvvula Chutney

Today’s
special in Dr. Mantena’s Kitchen is ‘Tomato Nuvvula Chutney’. Often preparing
Dr. Mantena’s recipes consume lot of time but preparing Tomato Nuvvula Chutney
is very easy and time saving. It can be easily made within 5 minutes and served
with phulkas, vadas etc. If you are an ardent follower of Dr. Raju, then you
might have noticed him using sesame seeds quite often. Sesame seeds are the
richest source of Calcium required for the bones. It is also rich in insoluble
fiber which helps in cleansing the intestines better. So, let us now go into
the details of preparing it.

Ingredients:

1.Sesame Seeds-50 gms

2.Tomatoes-2 Nos.

3.Green Chilies-4 Nos.

4.Lemon-1 No.

5.Coriander Leaves- 1 bunch

6.Curry Leaves- 5 – 6 Nos.

7.Turmeric-a pinch

Method:

1.Take 50 grams of sesame seeds and roast
them in a pan till it turns brown. Care is to be taken not to over roast them
as it turns bitter and under roasting will not give proper taste and aroma.

2.Grind the roasted sesame seeds in a mixer
grinder into fine powder.

3.Chop 2 tomatoes, green chilies, coriander
leaves, curry leaves, a pinch of turmeric etc. and add it in the jar of sesame
seeds and grind it into a fine paste.

4.Extract juice from 1 big size lemon and add
to the paste.

5.The spicy tinge chutney is now ready to be
served with hot phulkas or vadas.

If
you are new to Dr. Mantena’s recipes, the tongue obviously look out for the
taste of the salt. However the lemony and spicy flavor of the chutney can help
you eat the phulkas and vadas without any trouble.

When
Dr. Raju first gave a call to abandon the use of salt in food, everyone thought
he was crazy as it was a new thing for many people. No one believed that one
can cook food without salt; more importantly eating food without salt was out
of imagination. Look at his followers now? His followers are in large numbers
not only in India but across the World. And this number is growing larger every
day.

Earlier,
the doctors used to ask the heart and BP patients to reduce salt in their food
for safety. But they were afraid to say how less the salt should be because
they don’t want to lose their patients. But these days even the big corporate
hospitals are advertising on mega hoardings asking people to consume salt not
more than 1 gm a day. Thanks to Dr. Mantena Satyanarayana Raju for that. Is it
not the impact of Dr. Raju’s teachings that these people have come up to say
consumption of salt above 1 gm a day is harmful? Even if you believe these
doctors, you are not supposed to consume 1 gm salt per day. Are you consuming
salt anywhere near to this quantity? Just think! I don’t think even the doctors
who are advertising these hoardings will do either. It is because we are badly conditioned
to eat food cooked in salt. We have become slave to the salt which is taking
control all over our nervous system and internal organs and spoiling them
gradually over a period of time. By the time we realize it is too late.

The
only way to overcome this problem is to understand the harm that is doing to our
body and uncondition ourself from it. Being the Supreme of all beings, You must
be ruling the salt and not the salt rule you. You must grow to such an extent
that you add salt in food only when you want but not always in terms of the
salt. It is obviously difficult to sacrifice the salt immediately and
completely because we have been conditioned to have food with salt and huge amounts
of salt ever since we began eating our food. Therefore we need to gradually
train ourselves to overcome this unhealthy habit of eating salt by slowly
reducing the quantity of salt we use in our food.

Try
to cook and eat food without salt at least once a week to begin with and
gradually grow to such an extent that you avoid salt at least one meal a day
whether breakfast, lunch or dinner without salt. I think this itself is an
achievement. The things then change on its own after this.

I
hope you are going to declare a salt holiday at least one time a week and begin
your journey towards healthy living. Wish you all a very good luck and all the
best!